The Electronic Resources service is a monthly updated website portal that offers carefully selected Internet resources for users. It includes access to researched educational resources, professional development, and user group sessions. The content supports state standards and classroom curriculum. Updated monthly, it features themed spotlights, newsletters, calendars of curriculum sites, and a searchable database of vetted websites. It also highlights a Site of the Week and age-appropriate resources.

1. Electronic Resources http://www.lhric.org/er1 Bringing the Resources and Tools of the Internet to your Desktop

2. ER Home Page http://www.lhric.org/er1/index.html Monthly Site-ings - a brief list of educationally linked sites appropriate to the month. Ed-Bytes - links to educational technology articles of interest Links to inside and Members pages: Monthly Calendar, Site of the Week, Kids and Teens online, Teaching with the News Search Engine links

3. Site of the Week Educationally relevant site with classroom integration ideas and links to additional resources supporting the week’s theme.

4. Members Page Monthly Spotlight - a collection of theme based topical sites Links to Database Resources , monthly Calendar, monthly Newsletter ER Favorites - reminders

5. Monthly Calendar Links to calendar appropriate, educational sites of interest Focus on historical and cultural sites

6. Internet Resource Database ER Resources in searchable database

7. Curriculum Resources Educational links to resources for teachers and students

8. Internet Tools Tools for Teachers – lesson plans, rubric generators, online creation tools, worksheet generators, Web 2.0 tools, etc. Tools for Students - information collection, citation forms, reference sites, etc.

9. Professional Development Links to educational technology sources of professional interest such as tutorials, workshops, journals, online communities, lesson plans, etc.

10. Educational Fun Sites for Kids Many with teacher resources for use in classroom Updated, archived list maintained Just For Kids

11. Teens Online Sites of interest to the lives of teens Many with resources for use in classroom Updated, archived list maintained

12. For Information email [email_address] The Electronic Resources Service is a monthly updated, website portal that offers carefully selected Internet resources to users of the LHRIC website and its member districts. The service includes access to researched, detailed resources and to professional development and user group sessions. The content of Electronic Resources is selected to enhance and support state standards, the classroom curriculum, the students and the educational staff of the consortium districts. Updated monthly, ER features include access to themed spotlights, newsletters, calendars of relevant curriculum based sites, and a searchable database of professionally researched websites. The website also features the Site of the Week, Monthly Site-ings calendar events, current educational technology articles, links to educationally reliable search engines, Teens Online and Just for Kids websites.